Some 247 million years ago, a bizarre, six-inch-long reptile crept down a branch, its prehensile tail and feet clutching the bark like a monkey, and its narrow, birdlike face scanning its surroundings ...

Irish palaeontologists have helped discover an ancient "wonder reptile" which completely disrupts the scientific view of how skin and feathers evolved in reptiles. The international research team, ...

A newly discovered reptile has led scientists “back to the drawing board” on feather evolution. Although existing 70 million years before the oldest fossil feathers, the Mirasaura grauvogeli has long ...